On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 20:55 +0200, Björn Smedman wrote:
> When hostapd injects a frame, e.g. an authentication or association
> response, mac80211 looks for a suitable access point virtual interface
> to associate the frame with based on its source address. This makes it
> possible e.g. to correctly assign sequence numbers to the frames.
>
> A small typo in the ethernet address comparison statement caused a
> failure to find a suitable ap interface. Sequence numbers on such
> frames where therefore left unassigned causing some clients
> (especially windows-based 11b/g clients) to reject them and fail to
> authenticate or associate with the access point. This patch fixes the
> typo in the address comparison statement.
>
> Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
and Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx I think
> ---
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
> index db4bda6..eaa4118 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
> @@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@ static void ieee80211_xmit(struct
> ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
> if (tmp_sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
> continue;
> if (compare_ether_addr(tmp_sdata->dev->dev_addr,
> - hdr->addr2)) {
> + hdr->addr2) == 0) {
> dev_hold(tmp_sdata->dev);
> dev_put(sdata->dev);
> sdata = tmp_sdata;
>
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